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| Jason Bruce will be presenting a paper about
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| Dmitry Samosseiko. |
Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against viruses,
spyware and spam, today announced that experts from SophosLabs™, will be
presenting at the Virus Bulletin 2005 (VB2005) conference in
Dublin, 5-7 October 2005.
Jason Bruce, manager of detection development, and Dmitry
Samosseiko, head of spam operations at SophosLabs, will be giving
two separate talks at the 15th international Virus Bulletin
conference.
Jason's paper, "Defining rules for acceptable adware", explores
how industry-wide guidelines could be created which would make it
clearer what behavior by advertising software is acceptable, and
which isn't.
"Awareness of the issues associated with adware is increasing,
but the consumer is becoming confused rather than educated,"
explained Jason Bruce. "We currently have a breed of software that
is in a limbo classification somewhere between legitimate software
and malware. Adware needs to be cleaned up so that consumers are
informed and legitimate adware vendors in affiliate programs are
treated fairly."
Dmitry Samosseiko's paper, "Genotype spam detection", examines
Sophos's unique Genotype™ technology. The technology helps
proactively and reliably detect new emerging virus and spam
threats. In the case of spam threats it can detect future mutations
of a spam campaign in cases when conventional anti-spam techniques
are less efficient or simply do not work.
Samosseiko will explore real-world examples of how the
technology has helped protect customers from long-lasting spam
campaigns.
The 15th Virus Bulletin International Conference will take place
5-7 October 2005 at The Burlington Hotel, Dublin, Ireland.
About the Virus Bulletin conference
Over its 14-year history, the Virus Bulletin (VB) conference has
become a major highlight of the anti-virus calendar, with many of
its regular attendees citing it as the anti-virus event of the
year. The VB conference provides a focus for the AV industry,
representing an opportunity for experts in the anti-virus arena to
share their research interests, discuss methods and technologies
and set new standards, as well as meet with - and learn from -
those who put their technologies into practice in the real
world.
While in the past the conference has focused exclusively on
computer viruses and malware threats, it has seen an expansion of
the program to cover topics relating to spam and anti-spam
techniques. Delegates range from dedicated AV researchers to
security experts from government and military organizations, legal,
financial and educational institutions and large corporations
worldwide.
More information about the conference can be found on the
VB2005
website.
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.